FE Home
New Releases
Browse Catalog
Info
Email Us
Order Basket
Search:
Index of New Releases for April 2008
New Releases for April 2008
HELL YEAH RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Artist:
RAMIREZ
Title:
Hablando (Radio Slave Remixes)
Label:
HELL YEAH RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
HYR 7015EP
"You know, the early '90s revival is in the air... there's no need to let you know how much 'Hablando' by Ramirez has been influential in the good old days, the accordion, the bass drum, the Spanish trippy vocals: a timeless techno classic! Matt Edwards aka Radio Slave is another sure candidate for house music's Hall of Fame. He was so excited about lending his edit/remix trickery to 'Hablando' that he delivered two astonishing mixes and put them at #1 of his chart. Respect! Supported by all the usual suspects."
HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Artist:
WAREIKA HILL SOUNDS
Title:
Proverbs of Proverbs
Label:
HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:
7"
Price:
$7.00
Catalog #:
HJP 044EP
Unexpectedly uplifting, shuffling, percussive rug-cutter, with the
Light Of Saba
veteran bringing a little go-go to the grounation, and a lovely dub mixed by
Moritz von Oswald
.
Artist:
VA
Title:
Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson
Label:
HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
HJR 031CD
Honest Jon's Records presents a tribute album to UK folksinger
Lal Waterson
, with tracks specially commissioned for this release. Lal Waterson was a member of
The Watersons
, a key 1960s precursor of
Fairport Convention
and
Steeleye Span
.
Migrating Bird
features 19 different voices from different decades and countries, all with a different take on the singularly haunting quality of these works. From the gyrating keyboards of
King Creosote
to the ramshackle accordion of
Michael Hurley
to the gentle ambience of
Vashti Bunyan
, the simplicity of Waterson's lyrics and her mellifluous folk spirit shine through. Other artists include:
Nancy Elizabeth
,
James Yorkston
,
Victoria Williams
,
Lavinia Blackwall and Alex Neilson
,
Alasdair Roberts
,
Danny & The Champions Of The World
,
Charlotte Greig
,
Jeb Loy Nichols
,
Adrian Crowley
,
Richard James
,
Willard Grant Conspiracy
,
Sabbath Folk
,
Lindsey Woolsey
,
Richard Youngs
,
The Memory Band
and
Mark Olson
.
Artist:
HALO, ABDEL HADI & THE EL GUSTO ORCHESTRA OF ALGIERS
Title:
Abdel Hadi Halo & The El Gusto Orchestra of Algiers
Label:
HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
HJR 032CD
Chaabi
("of the people") has its roots in the Andalusian music of Moorish Spain, spreading to North Africa with exiled Jewish and Moorish communities; but it really took off in the music schools, parties and bars of occupied, post-WWII Algiers, where its Andalusian, Middle Eastern and North African lineage fused with the Mediterranean soundtrack of that era -- chanson, jazz, snatches of tango, a little boogie-woogie. A
chaabi
band combines traditional instruments such as the
quanoun
(or zither),
mandole
, oud,
gambar
(a stringed turtle shell),
bendir
and
derbouka
(types of drum); together with the piano, flute, banjo (brought to Algiers by American GIs), violin (played upright on the lap to save space in crowded venues), accordion and bongos. With subject matter ranging from God to pretty girls, the songs often touch on taboo issues. For this recording, the
Abdel Hadi Halo & The El Gusto Orchestra of Algiers
includes four singers -- joined in chorus by the voices of the entire orchestra and five-man banjo, percussion and violin sections. The scale and organization are thrilling; the music is swirling and improvisatory, surging from the haunted to the bluesy, the devotional to the knees-up. This album was recorded on the tilting fifth floor of the Conservatoire d'Algiers, in a room overlooking the sea on one side, and the Casbah on the other: the orchestra was recorded live in full flight -- all together, in continuous takes.
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
Artist:
HAIR POLICE
Title:
Hair Police
Label:
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
HOS 085ACD
"This CD collects the early
Hospital
cassette, the
Mortuary Servants
7" and unreleased material from the
Drawn Dead
era. Total basement dirge hell."
Artist:
HOTOTOGISU/PRURIENT
Title:
Snail on a Razor
Label:
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
HOS 159CD
2007 release. "Live in-person collaboration of mid-ranged feedback hell laden with raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence from from Matthew Bower (legend of Total, Skullflower, Ramleh, etc.) Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph, GHQ, etc.) and Dominick Fernow (Vegas Martyrs, Nihilist Assault Group, Ash Pool, etc.)."
Artist:
ZAIMPH
Title:
Sexual Infinity
Label:
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
HOS 162CD
"Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards, Hototogisu, GHQ fame on her first proper solo full length has given us one of our favorites in the history of Hospital Productions.
Sexual Infinty
stands refreshingly organized into six escalating pieces of her signature guitar, voice, and electronic moodscapes entrancing the listener with sinister seduction. Comparisons to early '80s power electronics and industrial acts as Uncommunity, Mauthausen Orchestra and Ramleh reside in the underbelly of Zaďmph's ability to generate ominous, gritty and doom-laden atmosphere cloaked in a thick lush drone. What begins with raw, ethereal guitar shadows of longing delight closes with vital, gripping electronic tension."
Artist:
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND
Title:
This is the Truth
Label:
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
HOS 166CD
2007 release. "The first Sutcliffe Jugend studio album in eight years.
This is the Truth
quite possibly stands as one of the most original and perfectly-balanced noise compositions of the last 10 years. It references and uses classic Sutcliffe Jugend of old while adding a brilliant blend of foreboding tension and anxiety while using the most lively, disturbing and textural elements of noise. All of which are brought together with the phenomenal detail and balance of an accomplished electronic composer. Songs that you think will explode leave you hanging with tension, while others erupt with violence out of nowhere. It's an absolutely brilliant album that was worth the wait."
HUNGAROTON
Artist:
OMEGA
Title:
10000 Lepes
Label:
HUNGAROTON
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
HUNG 17400CD
2003 reissue of the second album from Omega. "Classic album from this legendary Hungarian band. In order to understand and appreciate what a remarkable achievement this work was when it was recorded in 1968, it is perhaps necessary to briefly examine the constraints and restrictions faced by aspiring pop bands behind the veil of The Iron Curtain during the 1960s. Despite the fact that Hungary was one of the first breakaway satellite countries both socially and economically under Josef Kadar's New Economic Mechanism implemented in 1966, a censorship board known as The Song Committee had been established in order to syphon out any sensitive material which it deemed harmful to or which seeked to undermine the idealogical agenda of the state. This was a good thing and a bad thing for the bands. They could play their rock n'roll music, which in itself was considered to be symbolic of Western capitalistic endeavors, but the lyrical contents were not to cross any fine lines politically. One has to bear in mind that this was the time when The Beatles were singing about a revolution, Bob Dylan was speaking his mind through the rock medium and closer to home in Western Europe, bands like Amon Düül and Floh de Cologne were making political musical statements. It was the '60s man! The themes throughout the album are mostly mystical and full of legend and even if the listener is not familiar with the unique Hungarian language, the music is very moody and appropriate to the individual song concepts. Omega evolved into the biggest rock act to emerge from Eastern Europe ever, recording in English and German, touring Western Europe as well as Japan. Omega broke down barriers long before the Berlin Wall was broken down and for those who want a taste of what was going on behind The Iron Curtain rock-wise, in the 1960s,
10000 Lepes
is an interesting and important audio document which reveals the early Omega East meets West rock formula. Vintage Eastern European prog which rocked against the odds that takes the listener into a forbidden place in a dangerous time. Highly recommended for serious students of the prog rock genre." -- Ian Gledhill,
Prog Archives
Artist:
REICH, STEVE
Title:
Music For Mallet Instruments Voices & Organ
Label:
HUNGAROTON
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
HUNG 31358CD
1995 release. Includes the pieces "Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ" (1973), "Music for Pieces of Wood" (1973) & "Sextet" (1985). Performed by Amadinda Percussion Group (Károly Bojtos, Zoltan Rácz, Zsolt Sárkány, Zoltán Váczi); Ágnes Dobszay, Erzsébet Hajdu, Zsuzsanna Lukin (voices); Aurél Holló, Tibor Nemes, Balázs Papp, Benedek Tóth (mallet instruments); Béla Faragó (electric organ); Barnabás Dukay (claves); Károly Binder, György Oravecz (piano, synthesizers).
HYPERDUB (UK)
Artist:
KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:
Konfusion
Label:
HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:
12"
Price:
$10.00
Catalog #:
HYP 007EP
Kode9
&
The Spaceape
return with their first fresh collaboration since 2006. The dub instrumental of "Konfusion" is a breezy, almost horizontally-reclined groove that drops like a ton of gold bricks wrapped in silk. This version was recently vocalized by a chorus of cloned Spaceapes via a glitching, interstellar walkie-talkie. A warm draft from a summer to come, and frothy -- like Cresta lemonade (ask your dad).
I'M SINGLE (GERMANY)
Artist:
ZERO CASH & KHAN
Title:
Chitin Body EP
Label:
I'M SINGLE (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
IMS 002EP
"Chitin (C8H13O5N) is a long-chain polymer of a N-acetylglucosamine, a derivative of glucose, and it is found in many places throughout the natural world. It is the main component of the cell walls of fungi, the exoskeletons of arthropods, such as crustaceans (like the crab, lobster and shrimp) and the insects (including ants, beetles and butterflies) [Wikipedia]. Here's the second outing on I'm Single with a deep disco-rawk 12" in shiny black leather. Written & produced by Zero Cash (Television Rocks/Cologne) and Khan (Captain Comatose/I'm Single) who have teamed up before. After the smashing debut on IMS with 'Who Never Rests Remixed Vol.1' including the DJ favorite 'On The Run - Kaos Mix' and the pop jewel 'Favor After Favor' comes the appropriate follow up with 'Chitin Body.' This is a disco-ball-sized Scarab. A motorcycle gang vandalizing the dance floor. A night out spinning chitin records at Panoramabar."
IMMERSE RECORDS (UK)
Artist:
TRG
Title:
Time Is Now/They Know
Label:
IMMERSE RECORDS (UK)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.50
Catalog #:
IME 007EP
"Massive breaking dubstep from the Romanian producer most likely to go the distance." "Maintaining the abundent pressure built up from a slew of releases for Hessle Audio, Subway an Audio freaks, TRG drops into wonky breakbeat rinseout mode for Bristol's Immerse imprint. 'Time is now' is a taut breakbeat rinser, nicely skewed by a flapping bassline and snake charming melody, sure to be causing damage on the floors what want it. 'They know' is a far deeper cut, settling into a skipping breakstep/garage pattern with darkside dystopian tendencies." -- Boomkat.
Previous Page
Index of New Releases for April
Next Page
